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1Diane L. Spatz is a Professor of Perinatal Nursing & the Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a joint appointment with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where she is a nurse researcher and director of the lactation program. She is also the Clinical Coordinator of CHOP's Mothers' Milk Bank. Dr. Spatz is the Immediate Past-Chair of the American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Breastfeeding and an Editorial Board Member of MCN. Dr. Spatz can be reached via e-mail at spatz@nursing.upenn.edu.
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